English Fairy Tales, The Magpie's Nest, sentence 9

Then the magpie put another layer of mud over the twigs.

Who acts: magpie · What happens: put · To what, where: layer, twigs

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Magpie's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magpie	det
3	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 layer	det
6	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 mud	case
8	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 layer	nmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 twigs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 twigs	det
11	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the magpie	another layer of mud		the twigs	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent layer=Theme over twig=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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